St. Landry democrat., 1887-06-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
FRESH CHIT-CHAT ABOUT PER-
SONS AND THINGSIN EUROPE.
Recovering Sunken Treasure-A RivaIs
Dramatic Revenge-The Thick-headed
British Colonel-Pigeons and Hawks as
War MateriaI-A Limerick Bonfire.

War MateriaI-A Limerick BONFIRE.
At least one enterprise for the recovery
or sunken treasure has been successful.
On one Of the last days of the eighteenth CEN
fury the frigate Lutine sailed from Yarmouth
for the Texel with an immense quantity OF
treasure on board. Next day the vessel was
lost on the coast of Holland. From that day to
this salvng operations have been carried on
with varying fortune. Within eighteen months
tS0,OOO was recovered. Then the wreck was
left alone till 1914. From 1914 to 1921 work was
carried on but only few silver pieces were
recovered. In 1922 great effort was made. at
cost of several thousand pounds. The result
was nil. Then for years the attempt was all
but abandoned. Between 1857 and 1861, how
ever, "Lloyd's''-which had now undertaken
the work-recovered over $4,000, half of which
was handed over to the Dutch government
Since then they have had yet further successes
Among the salvage recently brought up was
one of the Lutine's guns. 1t has been pre-
scented to the corporation of London; and now.
after its three-quarters of a century under the
sea, finally reposes in the Guildhall Museum.
So many unsuccessful attempts have
been made to commit murder by means of in
fernal machines that most people have come
to regard these engines as comparatively harm
less But that they can do their work with
deadly certainty when all the circumstances
are favorable is proved by terrible crime
which has just been committed in Spain. A
young medical man at Archidona was engaged
to young lady of great beauty. During a
visit to Granada he learned that the lady was
carrying on Irritation with one of his friends.
He at once returned home and compelled heI
to give the rival his congo there and then. Two
months later the doctor and the lady were
married, and all went well. About year after
the wedding the doctor received one day by
railway from Madrid q wooden box. He opened
it in presence of his wife. and the next instant
they We're both blown to pieces. The incident
of the rival was known in the town. and he was
arrested upon suspicion of having sent the box
The stupidity of military etiquette
abroad was recently finely illustrated by
thick headed person. one Colonel II. Z. Collier.
commanding hussar regiment. He recently
marched squadron distance of twenty-five
miles: soon after starting it began to rain. and
when the men arrived at their destination they
were soaked to the skim and their pitiable con-
dtion excited the commiseration of the towns
people. The remarkable part OF the story is
that the men were all equipped with cloaks.
which being strapped on the saddle in front of
them only aggravated the circumstances. 1t
seems that the colonel not being provided with
a cloak. it was contrary to military etiquette
for him to allow the men to wear theirs. n
like the officers, the poor fellows were unable
to have their warm bath and change OF fresh
clothing on arriving at their bilets Many OF
them barely managed to get their clothes dry
in time to start next morning,
News has been received in Dublin or
the Phoenix Park informers. sent by the gov
eminent to various colonies some three and
a-half years ago. after the 1nvlnclbie trials.
kavanagh. the carman, has been dead some
time He always drank hard. and after leaving
Ireland went from bad to worse, and hnaly
succumbed to delrium tremens. Joe smith.
the man who. from working for the board OF
works in making repairs at Dublin Castle,
knew Mr.. Burke. and pointed him out to the
assassins. is also dead. He died under much
the same circumstances as kaVanagh. Peter
Carey, brother of the notorious James carey,
shot by O'Donnel has done remarkably well,
and is now in prosperous circumstances in one
of the colonies. He was, when in Dublin,
always regarded as sober, steady and clever
artisan. Bob Farrell the vandriver, who first
turned informer, is also doing well in another
of the colonies.
The German minister of education has
distinguished himself. This great and gener-
Gus man. in consideration of the services which
female teachers at public schools have rem
dered the state after thirty or fifty years
labors, proposes that to each OF these teachers
on her retirement special reward should De
given. if she has pursued her career with hon
ors. After long and serious consideration of
I,r-3 al hat
ing could be a more appropriate gift to the dis
abed and generally impecunious teacher than
a Bible if she be Protestant, and book of
devotion if a Catholic. Less sanity beings than
German female teachers might experience
some irritation if at the age of, say sixty, after
preparing generations of pupils for this world,
it was insnuated by the gift of a Bible that
hitherto they had had no time to spare for pre-
pairing themselves for the next world.
For centuries the names OF the ladies
of the imperial harem and the particularapart-
ments they occupied have been known only to
the Sultan and the chief of the enuchs. Lat
terly. however, this confidence has been shared
by two Of the physicians attached to the house
hold. Now the commander OF the faithful, OF
his own motion it is said has ordered that IN
the future each sultana shall enjoy the luxury
OF a tlSlIlQS CdIu, dllu tHTt SIG sAdli ulHA a
COPY of it to the outer door of the apartments
she occupies in the harem. For whose enlght-
eminent this information is intended does not
appear, unless it be to facilitate the inquiries
of lady visitors. Possibly there has been a
revolution in the harem, and the Sultan has
taken this remarkable step in advance by way
of making his peace with the lights thereof.
General Boulanger, the French minis
ter of war. recently addressed circular letter
to the projects asking them to take measures
to prevent the slaughter of carrier pigeons, or
to point out to him what legislative steps it
might be desirable to take for the preservation
of these interesting and useful messengers.
AS there is little to distinguish them from the
ordinary pigeon, it will be necessary to shield
the whole race from the marksman, and to i'm
pose penalty on those who may kill them
elsewhere than in the dovecot and farmyard.
The Germans are not only trying to improve
their own carrier pigeons, but are training
hawks@which in war time they mean to let
loose on the messenger birds of the enemy.
In Limerick there was remarkable
public demonstration against the sale of rowdy
were borne through the streets, and the process
sion which composed some thousands, was pre-
ceded by band In the centre was carried an
effgy of his satanic majesty, and around the
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